Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape with a claim that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview postedSunday. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

…then I have to admit I’m rapidly losing all hope for our southern neighbours and will begin lobbying Ottawa for a Zombie Wall along the 49th Parallel ASAP.

“LEGITIMATE RAPE”???

Then what would be “Illegitimate Rape”? And what is this magic spermicidal hormone we apparently secrete during “Legitimate Rape”?

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Knowing the way anti-choicers think would likely never be a “legitimate rape”. Or perhaps the implied definition of that misogynist freak Bill Napoli:

A real-life description would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raed, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated.

He was speaking on the Jaco Report on KTVI–our local Fox station. Akin thought he was among the like-minded.

What bothers me is that the junk science he was spouting isn’t being refuted loudly enough. This jerk Akin is a home-schooler hero and I’m shuddering to think of all the perfect misinformation that’s being taught to children by their like-minded, know-nothing-and-proud-of-it, dimwitted parents.